- HomeAway property features: In the Property Features menu, you will now see the new HomeAway button which opens the specific HA features window. There are almost 300 check-boxes, so hopefully the layout is OK!

- You can now specify that a staff member / franchisee cannot cancel or delete a booking under Access Control

- In Quick Property Setup, there is a new check box to specify that you cannot check a guest in (in TBS) if the previous guest has not checked out. You will now see in the TBS next to the Check-in area, that this will be grayed out if the previous guest has not checked out. There is also a link to open the previous booking on the check in/out screen which might be useful to quickly check previous guest out if required.

- HomeAway auto-inquiry responder will now use the default quote template if the user has not set one specifically for HA.

November 23, 2016 - version 2016 (build 039)

- Total Booking Summary: In the General Tab, the staff member that placed the booking is now shown. This can only be edited by an Admin user

- Total Booking Summary: For a CalendarSync Booking, a supplier can only edit / delete their own extras and an agent can only edit / delete their own extras

- Rate Sets: Historical date bands can no longer be edited

- Fixed bug where editing Quote Settings and setting the Security Deposit to 'None' may cause an error (applied this to 036)

- Fixed bug on Basic Work Order module where on occasion some franchisees would see work orders from properties they do not have access to.

- Fixed bug where the balance due date on guest confirmations for owner bookings would not use the balance due date as stamped against the booking (but use the default property balance due date instead).

- Fixed bug where moving a booking within the same property did not send email notification to MC.

- Bookings List: A CS Agent can now view reservations that are in properties deleted by the master MC (check box in the 'Include' menu)

- View Saved Quotes: When looking at CS Booking quotes, the property name now correctly shows the clone property name rather than the Master Property Name. Added other CS compatibility fixes

- Cleans: Fixed bug where cleans added and updated were not showing on the change tracking log

- Newsletters & Templates: Can now specify if all Franchisees or a specified list of franchisees have access to individual templates

- Secure Track: Fixed bug where the Dashboard may not allow switching to certain views when other views are disabled for that staff member

- Fixed bug where the Featured Home property selector in Website General Settings would show the name of the property set by the owner rather than by the Property Manager

- SecureTrack: Dashboard 'Overview' has been removed as a SecureTrack option as this should be visible to all staff

- Standard Reports: New report 'Occupied / Vacant' Report

- Fixed bug where sometimes a Clone Agent would not receive the email notifying them of a rateset change made by the Master. Applied this fix to 032

- Fixed bug when taking an owner payment (credit card or e-check) an error would pop-up after approving or declining the payment

- Fixed bug where a reservation selected in Bookings List to view in Bookings Manager, when outside of the date range selected in Bookings Manager would display an error. This now automatically adjusts the Bookings Manager date range in order to show and select the reservation.

- Standard Reports: New report 'Property Licenses' to show the various license / account numbers per property. If logged in as a staff admin you can choose from all Franchisees. If logged in as a franchisee you can only view your own property licenses

- Bill Payments - When marking a bill as paid, and the amounts are sent to the owner account, the 'Comment' is now entered in to the owner account description

- Guest confirmation emails in Newsletters & Templates can now use new token [lastpaymentreceived] to get the amount of the most recent payment. This can be used for Guest / Owner Confirmation as well as in CRM emails

- Bookings List: All the 'Include' filters can now be saved and restored

- Bookings List: Can now show the master property supplier for CS Bookings you have made (scenario 8)

- Secure Track: You can now specify that a staff member / franchisee cannot edit check details once the check has been paid

- Owner account balances report: The 'Due' column has now been split in to 2 columns, to specifically show amount 'Due to Owner' and 'Amount due by Owner' with grand totals at the end of the report

- New tokens for use in the Guest Confirmation and CRM templates for above codes

- Get Quote: You can now opt to show booking restrictions on the quote results

- Newsletters and Templates: New token [propertycommunity] for the community name of the property

- Newsletters and Templates: The standard address format has been changed to more standard address format

- Total Booking Summary: You can now view and change the 'Booking Contact' (within the General tab). This is the same as the field that can be set within Bookings Manager

- Templates / CRM: New token [bookingcontact] to show the Booking Agent Contact as set in Bookings Manager / TBS

- You can now disable owner accounting for a property (Quick Property Setup -> Enable Owner Accounting). When not enabled, owner accounts cannot be viewed and other areas of the software such as tax reports, recurring charges, owner booking fees etc will not show the property

- Updated DLL components

- Fixed bug where taking a security deposit with Authorize.Net would sometimes throw an error (applied this to 019 and 021 also)

- Fixed bug where a mandatory extra charged as a nightly fixed rate could occasionally calculate as just 1 night. Applied this to version 019 and 021)

- Fixed some minor rounding errors on the occupancy report average rental rates

- Tax reports now show the extra fields as added in previous update (Total Inc Tax, Tax on Extras, Tax Exempt Nights, Tax Exempt Total). As a result the reports are now designed to be printed Landscape

'- All Owner Accounts' report can now select a specific vendor (or all vendors) to report on

- Cart Extras: Rental Exchange users can now set vendor pricing against extras and view a report of margins over a specified time period

December 17, 2015 - version 2015 (build 042)

- Can now pop-out windows from the main Ciirus window to allow multiple screens to be open at the same time

- Can now include a hyphen character in a custom web page name

- Fixed bug where cancelled bookings would not always show in the Bookings Manager even when the 'Show Cancelled Bookings' check box was checked

- Updated Bookings Manager and Bookings List so MC does not see the SS Agent of a Clone agent, but will see the Clone Agent
Mandrill settings now allows you to specify the 'From' email address used to send email notifications

- BeHome 24/7: MCs can now enable a property themselves provided both API Key 1 and API Key 2 are enabled. Ciirus admin only can disable a property upon request

- Custom tokens can now be set for descriptions sets

- For native bookings, you can now configure to recalculate the rates when a booking is moved (dates or property change). Enable this in General Booking Settings. The following items will be updated if applicable: Base rental rate, booking fee, cleaning fee, pool heat rate, extras. RX only

November 19, 2015 - version 2015 (build 039)

- Manage Owners: You can now specify that a property is owned by more than one owner, and set the percentage for each

- 1099s and 1042s: Can now print based on property ownership as set above. The rental income amount will be split based on the percentage ownership configured above

- Owner Accounts Screen: Can now select year up to 3 years in advance (was previously up to 1 year in advance)

- The CRM Manage People screen now allows you to return all contacts with no filter

- For Calendar Sync clone properties, the clone agent can now update date bands in rate sets from the rate set assigned by the MC

- Access Control: You can now prevent a user / franchisee from printing checks

- Access Control: You can now prevent a user / franchisee from sending bill payments to owner accounts

- CC Processing Screen: You can now show the 'Name On Card' (select this from the column chooser)

- Property List: You can now process payments from owner as a batch (if they have a default payment method on file)

- Rental Exchange work orders are now viewable by owners in the Windows app. Each work order must be set as 'Visible to Owner' before the owner can see it.

- MC can now charge a commission on Pool Heating. This can either be a fixed amount or percentage. Set in quote options on a per property basis. Once a booking has been placed, the amount can be edited against the booking in the Total Booking Summary. The initial amount can be configured based on MC or Owner booking

- Mandrill API key setting moved to 'Edit Account' screen

- MCs can now set up a Mandrill account (see above) and notification emails, guest emails and owner notifications will be routed via the Mandrill account (web app also updated to route via Mandrill

- When resetting passwords, they must now adhere to our minimum password security guidelines

- You can now set a default commission to booking categories that will be set when a new booking is placed or when you change a booking category in Bookings Manager

- CS Bookings: When viewing the TBS and adding extras, the MC will now see list of available extras from the Master Property and when being viewed by the Clone agent they will see list of extras as assigned to the property by the clone user

- CS Booking updates: Now populates the MC amount on CS bookings with the floor rate from the assigned rate set if configured to do so in the supersite settings.

- Fixed bug where MC was able to move a CS booking on the scheduler that was made by a CS agent

- Added Lock Box system functions to 'MC Specific Property Details' to support API functions for various lock box providers

- Bill Payments & Assets: Allow negative value checks to be printed

- Owner Account Global report now shows check number and date paid against detail rows if the item was added via the Invoicing / Billing module

- New menu 'Property List' which show many property details in an exportable format. You can filter by date to show only available properties between those dates, plus filtering across all other attributes.

- You can now lock a booking (Total Booking Summary -> General). This prevents it from being cancelled or moved within the Bookings Manager, Bookings List and Bookings Scheduler.

- Pressing F7 will open up a new 'Owner and Property Details' screen. This shows the details of the currently selected property / owner. If you are in the Bookings List or Bookings Scheduler the screen will show the details for the selected property / property the selected booking is in.

- Deleted properties can now be seen in the Property Chooser. Click the icon to the right of the property chooser to refresh the list. The deleted date (Date Off Management) can be seen and edited in the Quick Property Setup. This must be enabled by CiiRUS admin

- You can now copy a property. This copies all property details, secure property details, images and descriptions

- New field 'Booking Restrictions' can be entered in Quick Property Setup. You can enter notes about booking restrictions (e.g. Check with owner before booking over summer).

- Booking Scheduler: Can now view the 'Booking Restrictions' as specified above when you click on a property in the scheduler timeline.

- You can now automatically schedule automatically added cleans for properties that have been vacant and not had a clean for a specified number of days. Enable this for your account in MC General Settings, where you can also set the number of days since the last clean. Then enable each property and override the number of days in Quick Property Setup.

- Quick Property Setup - Secure Track users only: You can now assign a Franchisee to a property

- Access Control: You can specify whether your staff / franchisees can view open months in the owner statement

- Owner Account Balances report now shows the owner name

- Manage Owners: You can now specify that an owner cannot edit property features or location details (read-only)

- Guest / Owner confirmations (as sent from Bookings List, Bookings Manager, Total Booking Summary): You can now make ad-hoc edits to the email in preview mode before sending

- You can now prepare arrival packets to print for your guests. Filter in Bookings List, then select the Reservations you would like to print, then click 'Arrival Packets'

- Along with the above item, you can now print arrival packet envelopes

- Fixed bug when adding a CS booking, the CS agent default commission percentage would not be applied to the booking (added to version 031)

- Credit Card Settings: Updated the 'Accepted Card Types' screen. For each of your accepted card types, you need to link it to a standard system card type (e.g. You may have entered 'Visa Credit Card' which you would link to the standard type called 'Visa'). This is for better compatibility with external merchant providers

- When adding a new credit card, the address is automatically pre-populated from the contact record. This can be edited if necessary

- Manage Owners: The Country and State / Province fields are now tied to the standard Countries and States database (this is for compatibility with the item above and other future updates). Please edit each of your owners address information to utilize these new fields.

- Guest Credit Card details: When adding a credit card within Ciirus, the billing address defaults to that of the guest. This can be updated if required.

- Can now store payment details for guests against their CRM contact (TBS or CRM screen)

- Can now take payments against stored guest card details (TBS, Guest Payments)

- Can now take owner payments from their saved payment method (Owner accounts screen)

- When a payment is taken from an owner, the amount is credited to the owner account automatically

- Updated the Credit Card Processing screen. Simpler layout and now has filters to search for various entries

- Credit Card Processing: You can now open the Total Booking Summary from this screen when a card payment is selected that has a Booking ID assigned.

- Credit Card Processing. For 'Accounts Module' users that also use VRP for payment processing, you can now process refunds to credit cards from within Ciirus (on rental payments only)

- Accounting Functions: New option "Process Owner Booking Fees". This allows you to view all owner bookings that require a charge to the owner account. You can select or ignore each booking, alter the default amount then process in a batch to all the appropriate owner accounts. Enable this and override the default charge in Quick Property Setup.

- Property List: Now includes owner account details (last month end, last month end balance, todays balance, minimum account balance, amount due from / to owner for last month and today)

- Property List: Can now click to take owner payment (if the owner has a card / account on file)

- Bookings List: Can now select to include previous booking departure date

- Bookings List: Fixed bug where Export to Excel would result in corrupted file

- Bookings List: Now exports booking comments

- Added function to allow mobile page redirects

- When you create a calendar sync home, the floor rate from the rate set assigned by the MC to the master property will populate in to the floor rate of the rate set assigned to the new clone property

- Rate Sets: You can now create daily rates automatically from floor rates, by adding a % or fixed amount to the floor rate.

- Rate Sets: When assigning rate sets to properties there is now a button to 'unassign' rate set

- Calendar Sync: When adding a booking, the floor rate from the master assigned rate set will be calculated and stored against the property (which is then visible to the Master).

- Advanced Website Settings: You can now specify a default master description set to be used for all properties on your site

- Increased e-check bank account field to 13 digits

- When Accounts Module is enabled, you can now still send amounts to Owner Account from the Total Booking Summary

- When Accounts Module is enabled you can now edit open owner accounts (as per when AM is not enabled)

- Option to take owner payments now enabled when Accounting Module is not enabled

- Bookings Manager: When viewing a booking made by a CS agent, the booking comments, contact details and agent details are no longer displayed on the screen

- When disbursing owner amounts, can choose to split the rental and pool heat payment in to 2 lines in the owner account

- Added option to clear the Master Description Set

- Option to copy rates from CS Master to floor rate in a clone property has been made public

- Bookings Manager -> More Info tab. Fixed bug where address would sometimes show html tag <br> rather than a line feed

- Property Chooser: Now includes the community

- Bookings Schedule: Now includes Pool and Bedroom Configuration plus other filter items

- Quick Property Setup: Now includes Owner Name

- House Keeping Schedule: Now includes Franchisee

- Assets: Now includes Owner Name when adding a batch

- Booking Schedule: Fixed bug where the day of week would not always show above the timeline

- Total Booking Summary: When adding a cart extra, the selection list is now in alphabetical order and the item code display

- Cart Extras: You can now delete cart extras even if they have been assigned to a booking (in which case a warning will display if assigned to a future booking). When a cart extra is deleted, the item will still be assigned to any bookings, but you can then use the report (below) to determine which bookings are affected

- Specific Cart Extra Report: You can now show deleted cart extras, in order to see which bookings might be affected by the deletion of a cart extra

Fixed problem where updating a guest name in Bookings Manager didn’t refresh the name on the grid

Can now enter a plain text community description in the Descriptions screen

Bookings List: Can now optionally show default cleaner

MC Commissions can now be set independently between MC and CS Agent in Total Booking Summary

Booking Manager: The guest confirmation email can now choose to select email address from pop-up of all contacts

Bookings List: You can now send a guest confirmation email by right-clicking on a booking in the same way as you can from the Bookings Manager

AOA users / Secure Track: Users that are configured for Secure Track and also for AOA, the Admin user can now specify that staff/franchisees have the ability to add a booking in Bookings Manager that overlaps blocked-out dates in AOA properties

Supersites: You can now define specific terms and conditions against either a SuperSite agent or individual properties assigned to the agent. If you leave the terms set to 'Default' against the property then it will use the terms you specify against the agent. If that is also set to 'Default' then it will use the terms configured against your property (as set in the Quote Settings)

Bookings List: For AOA bookings, the original AOA category booked can be displayed

Calendar Sync: In the Total Booking Summary, when sending money to the owner account, you can now choose a specific property to send the payment to.

Various CS bugs fixed including recording and reporting of guest payments against Calendar Sync bookings

Guest confirmation: New token [bookingaoacategory] shows the AOA category the booking was originally placed as. Note, if the booking is subsequently moved to a different property with a different AOA category, this token will still display the originally booked AOA category

Guest confirmation: New token [propertyaoacategory] shows the AOA category of the property the booking is currently assigned to (regardless of the AOA category originally assigned to the booking)

Guest confirmation: New token [ssagentcompanyname] shows the company name of the SS agent

Guest confirmation: new token [ssagentaddress] shows the address of the SS agent

Bookings List: The 'Outbound Bookings' filter is now remembered between sessions

Bookings List: Fixed bug where cancelled bookings were not found when doing a search

Bookings Schedule: Fix bug when moving bookings between properties

HTML Editor: Fixed bug where 'Blank' was being added to some href tags when switching between source and design modes

Website logon: Can now choose to show/hide the password

Increased max web image upload to 150

Access Control: You can now switch notifications on/off

Access Control: You can now enable or disable all CRM options

Access Control: Move Bookings: When moving a booking, staff members can only move bookings to properties in their access control list

Access Control: Booking Schedule now only shows properties in the staff members access control list

Access Control: Option to enable / disable moving of a booking

Access Control: When logged in as a staff member and adding a new property, the new property is now automatically added to that users property access control list if the user does not already have access to all properties

Access Control: Can now specify whether a user can add owner bookings

Access Control: Can now specify whether a user can change the booking category to/from an owner booking category

Access Control: New Billing Module: You can now specify whether a user can mark a check / invoice as paid (and therefore prevent them from charging the owner account)

Bookings List: The search option now allows you to specify which field to search on (guest name, imported booking reference, agent booking reference)

March 1, 2015 - version 2015 (build 09)

Rental Exchange

Tax Reports: Can now specify 2 new options for when to report tax on reservations: "Tax Report Date (if set) else Arrival Date" and "Tax Report Date (if set) else Departure Date". These options will use the Tax Report Date you specify in Bookings List, but if you leave blank then it will use either the arrival or departure date.

VRP Live Payment from Total Booking Summary: Fixed a problem where some international (non US / Canadian) payments would decline due to not having a State specified.

Websites now show AOA properties as available when they have bookings in. You can hide an AOA property by adding blackout dates for the date range you wish to block.

AOA: You can now add overlapping bookings in AOA properties in Bookings Manager

SEO: Can now configure custom 301 redirects from old pages to a new valid page, which is important for search engines

Credit Card Processing: Now shows the Billing Country in the list, plus a total at the bottom. This means you can now filter by e.g. all International card payments between certain dates and see a total of all the payments that were approved

Franchise module added to Secure track (Rental Exchange). Can now specify a list of properties a secure track user has access to (RE)

iCal added as part of Connectivity Package

Quotes: When quoting within the app, it now returns properties with >= the number of bedrooms specified

Guest Confirmation and Quote Template now have a new token [termsurl] that goes to terms.aspx to show the T&Cs for the property

Take Live Payment Now option in the Total Booking Summary now uses a standard list of Country and State codes to improve the card approval rate

Card payment screen (guest and owner) now supports VRP tokens

Card processing within Ciirus now supports VRP tokens

Access Control: You can now specify whether a user has the ability to send work orders to the owner account

Contacts: The screen now defaults to a new list view (you can still switch to the original card view if you prefer)

Channel Manager: Added tab for My Booking Pal control panel

New Bill Payments screen

Owner amount disbursement module (RE)

Added FlipKey as a channel partner

Added Roomorama as a channel partner

Export Guest Contact details: Can now include quotes as well as reservations

Added property star rating (under property details). In an upcoming version, website users will be able to filter by this option
SEO package: Blogs now have user friendly URLs

Bookings Manager: When logged in as an owner, the owner can no longer see the booking category when not an owner booking

Moved 'Inventories' to the 'Owners and Homes' main menu

SEO Package: Website visitors can now leave comments against a blog article. These can be moderated / deleted within the Windows app

Allow domain names to include special characters such as Russian and other languages

Work Orders: Can now specify (in MC General Settings) that property access details be displayed on the Work Order printout / email

Manage Owners: When removing an owner from your management, you must now delete any active properties for that owner first

Manage Owners: Now shows first and last names in 2 columns

Bookings List. New 'Payments' option. This allows you to quickly enter a payment against reservations when a single payment is received from an agent for multiple reservations. (RE)

Manage Owners: Reformatted the page to make more user friendly

SEO Page redirects: Pick list to the right to quickly select a page to redirect to (RE)

Online Booker: Added place holders and templates for new responsive Online booker option

Description sets: Can now specify a Google Maps template

Description sets: Can now specify an overlay template for property image on search grid

Occupancy Reports: New report 'Property Occupancy by Month-Year-Day' showing number of days occupied for each day of the year

Bookings List: Now has owner name and guest telephone number available in the column chooser

Notifications: Fix bug where some recent notifications would not show when there are a large number of unread notifications

Web Image Library: Increase the image resize to a 800px width (was 400) when an image is greater than this width

Total Booking Summary: If viewing a canceled booking, now flashes a Canceled label and shows as canceled in the title bar

Total Booking Summary: Now shows the Property Name in the General tab

Notifications: If viewing a booking notification (such as new, updated or canceled booking) you can now double-click the notification or click the 'View booking' link to open the booking in the Total Booking Summary

Quote Settings -> Terms and Conditions. You can now enter a plain text version of the T&C's as well as Cancellation Policy and Local Charges. These are primarily for channel partners such as HomeAway who expect these in plain text.

Channel Manager -> HomeAway. You can now specify the Terms to apply to each property

Total Booking Summary: Now shows Booking Category and Booking Comments

Quotes in Windows app now show, and can be filtered by AOA category and star rating (RE)

Custom occupancy report definitions can now be saved

Mobile Sites: Can now show the image list and insert images in to content regions

Mobile Sites: Can now define menu links to external sites

Mobile Sites: Can now define a footer below each content region with title and link (internal or external)

Rates: You can now define future rate bands, and copy them to all other rate sets (optionally with rates, min nights, arrival / departure days)

All data now uses SSL (previously only sensitive data would be transmitted via SSL)

Booking Payments Summary can now optionally show the owner amount

Occupancy Report can now be set to use either the base rate (ex tax) or the total price including tax. The base rate as before shows the base rental rate minus any discounts, but does not show tax, extras, pool heating, cleaning or booking fees.

Franchise Module: Can now specify which reports to allow access to, allow or prevent access to Total Booking Summary and allow or prevent access to financial details in the Bookings List. (RE)

March 12, 2014 - version 2014 (build 018)

Dashboard: Added new timeline view to Dashboard (shows bookings, cleans and work orders)

Dashboard: Reinstated print facility from the various tabs

Dashboard: You can now specify whether to show the dashboard after logging on, and which dashboard page to initially display. Go to the Account screen to adjust this at any time.

Fixed a problem with some windows appearing behind others and therefore appearing to freeze the software

When selecting a booking on the Booking Scheduler, now only quotes if the quote window is already open. If you drag a range on the timeline (without selecting an existing booking) then the quote window will pop up and quote for that range

Booking Schedule in AOA mode: Owner bookings were showing as having a red flag indicating they were OK to move. This has now been fixed

March 10, 2014 - version 2014 (build 015)

Recurring charges: Can now set to process automatically on the selected day.

Recurring charges: If using the auto-process above, can now specify which months of the year you want the charge to process

Recurring Charges: If using the auto-process option, can view log of charges applied

Websites: Fixed bug where an extra set as percentage of rental rate was not working properly

Main Screen has new icon to right of property selector so you can view the selected property's details page

Property Details page now has 'Preview' icon so you can view the selected description set for that property online

Guest / Owner Booking Confirmation Template: Can now include Supplier Booking Ref and Original Booking Ref [supplierbookingref] and [originalbookingref]

When adding a new booking, if in AOA mode then you can set the AOA category of the booking

Booking Categories: Can now specify whether a booking can be Cut and Pasted on the Booking Scheduler based on the booking category

Bookings Schedule Updates:

Flag icon will appear on a booking if it is an AOA booking, and can therefore be moved

Hover mouse over booking to see more details in a pop-up window

New 'View Property' button will launch web browser to view the currently selected property online

Date Navigator window which used to be fixed to the right edge of the screen can now be dragged to any edge or dropped outside of the main Ciirus window, such as a second monitor

Property list to left side of screen has been enhanced to show additional fields. You can now sort and filter against these new fields

You can now 'Cut and Paste' AOA bookings from the scheduler screen in to a pop-up box. You can select multiple bookings by holding the 'CTRL' key when you select. You can then paste the bookings individually back in to other properties. The 'Cut' list can be moved to dock within the main Scheduler window or on to a second monitor and optionally combined with the Date Navigator window

The 'View' button at the bottom of the screen has been removed. The functions that used to be in the 'View' menu have been moved into the 'Color / View Settings' and 'Tools' tabs.

The Ciirus icon at top-left of all screens now hides both the top, bottom and left screen areas to give more data viewing space. This is particularly useful on the Bookings Scheduler

Quotes in App: Now shows price calculation breakdown against each quote

Booking Scheduler - can now drag a range of dates and quote / book those dates (Via the pop-up quote window)

Quote (Get Quote in Windows edition): Can select a specific property from drop-down list rather than the currently selected property in the

property chooser

Pop-up Quote window can now be made to stay on top of the main Ciirus window

Can now take Owner Account payments from owners by credit card. Link visible on owner account screen and can be inserted in to owner account statement that is emailed.

Supersite Agents: Can now specify a default booking category to use for each SS agent

Supersite Agents: Can now specify a default MC commission percentage to use per SS agent. This overrides the MC default commission, but the property specific commission, if set, overrides the SS agent commission

Prevent a cancelled booking from being made tentative (or from tentative to confirmed)

Websites: Can now order results by price

Websites: Can now filter results by properties within a specified price range

New Notifications window that shows important events such as new bookings, work orders, information from admin

Fixed display of cancelled tentative bookings in Bookings Manager so the strike-through line is visible

On the logon page, you can now choose to try out the beta of our new product 'Rental Exchange'. Note, some of the features above are only available in the Rental Exchange product.

January 23, 2014 - version 2014 (build 004)

Can now print checks to owners from Owner Account (Account Module only).

Credit Card Payments screen now has column available for 'Auth Code'

Cleaning Report: Custom report now has 'Community' as an available field

Cleaning Schedule: Now has 'Community' in field chooser

Booking Schedule: Bookings can no longer accidentally be moved to different dates when dragging between properties

Booking Schedule: Can now right-click a booking and select 'Move' option to move to a different property

Booking Schedule: Number of bedrooms is now displayed alongside the property name

Standard Reports: Payments Due / Over Due report now shows tentitive and outbound bookings (rental exchange only), and an option to show any other future booking where zero payment has been received (even if balance due date has not passed)

Supersites: You can now specify whether properties for supersite agents can be booked online by the Supersite agent. This can be set to the MC "allow online booking" setting, or to True or False. Supersite Agents -> Configure properties for your agents -> Allow online booking

The quote icon in the quick launch bar now opens the quote screen in a new window

Total Booking Summary: You can now send a guest confirmation from the Guest Payment screen

Removed Quick Quote from the left navigation bar

September 1, 2013 - version 2013 (build 032)

Tentative Bookings

Bookings can now be marked as Tentative. They will appear in red in the Bookings Manager and in the Bookings List. Tentative bookings can be set from two locations:
Bookings Manager > Create New Booking > Tentative Booking

Tentative Bookings can be set to expire manually or auto expire within a specified number of days. Tentative bookings can also be converted to a confirmed booking:
Bookings Manager > Total Bookings Summary > General

Enter the booking expiry date when you add the booking. Each night the system will expire any bookings that exceed the specified date. Expired tentative bookings will be converted to a quote so they can still be viewed in Quotes Manager.

You can confirm a tentative booking, or immediately expire a tentative booking:
Bookings Manager > Total Bookings Summary > General

Tentative bookings appear on a red background within Bookings Manager and Bookings List.

Convert a regular booking to a tentative booking from screen:
Bookings Manager > Total Bookings Summary > General

Online Housekeeping / Maintenance Service Portal

The Service Portal is your company's connection between Maintenance Staff, Housekeepers, and Vendors.

Track and assign tasks to service staff instantaneously. Manage work orders and cleans in CiiRUS as usual, but provide a log on to each service staff member. Staff members can log on and view jobs by date range, view access codes, get directions, leave comments, track mileage , log time spent, and update the status of jobs all from this one mobile friendly tool .

The Property Manager has permissions control over almost all information visible to staff.

Are the logistics of managing your company making it difficult to manage homes?

The Service Portal can help streamline operations . The Service Portal requires the JobTracker feature enabled.
Below are two demo logins to view and try:

Service url: http://servicelogon.com/account/login.aspx
To login as a Housekeeper:
Username: 107
Password: ciirus

To login as a Maintenance :
Username: 1450
Password: ciirus

Webpage Editor Updated

The webpage editor has been updated. The updated documentation is available from:
http://help.ciirus.com/s/2494/m/5705/l/53900-web-page-editor-feature-overview
New Features Include:

* HTML Editors: Table borders are now visible as dotted guides, in design mode when width set to 0

* HTML Editors: Paste from Word option

* HTML Editors: Better HTML code generation with less messy code

* HTML Editors: In-line spell checker

* HTML Editors: Now 3 views - WYSIWYG, HTML Source and Preview modes

* HTML Editors: Now includes HTML tag navigator in the footer of the Design View

Multiple Discount codes can be made available from the website. When active the guest can enter the discount code online and the discount will be displayed and applied when the booking is made.
The discount codes are set from screen:
Quotes Manager > Cart Settings > Discount Code [check box)
Enter the Discount Code on the code box, For Example enter: 10PCD

Note: Discount will be applied to the rental only
Discount can be applied:

* As a fixed one off amount against the total rental amount

* A fixed daily amount for example $10 for each day booked

* Or as a percentage of the total rental amount
For Example to apply a 10% discount to the total rental amount for discount code 10PCD , tick the percentage box and enter -10.00 (note the negative before the amount)

Automated Balance Due Reminder Emails

Set the default number of weeks prior to arrival that the balance payment is due from Screen:
Bookings Manager > Total Booking Summary > Payments Received

Specify how often to send reminder email to guest after balance due date, when there is still an amount outstanding.

Enhanced client search tools for websites

Simplify your customer's search for a home with Enhanced client search tools for websites. Property features and date ranges give customers a quick way to filter through your inventory to the home they wish to book.

This search filter adapts to the screen size of the client browser so you can easily select desired features. The tool changes position when the browser size is expanded or reduced. The results in the search will only show homes with the features selected by your guests.
View Demo Search Tool:
http://www.floriwood.com/search.aspx
Contact us if you would like the search tool feature added to your website.

Jump to Property (website)

Today's technologically makes your website like the front window of a store. The clearer the glass, the better exposure your customers will have to your product in the Window. CiiRUS Custom websites have taken the automatic filtering and easy to read functionality of the CiiRUS windows application and adapted it to the web.

The Jump to Property feature on custom websites offers ease of access to customers who know what they want, or make directing a client to a listing over the phone easier and more accessible from any page of your website.

Mobile website (Supersite)

Want to expand your exposure on the web? A CiiRUS Mobile SuperSite may be your answer.

Mobile browsing accounts for nearly 20% of web traffic. When a Customer goes to your current website, a Mobile SuperSite can automatically detect if a user is on a mobile device and provides them a smartphone friendly way to find the perfect home to book. Mobile SuperSites provide all the search and booking functionality of a SuperSite with a format which is fast, easy, and elegant.
If you are using a Ciirus based website, Ciirus can configure a Supersite to be a mobile website.

For information, contact Ciirus: info@ciirus.com

Below is a link to an example mobile website. Using your smartphone, go to:

http://www.floriwood.com
Note: If the browser detects you are using a phone browser it will automatically redirect to the mobile Supersite:
http://m.floriwood.com

Introducing the Rental Exchange

The Rental Exchange is an experimental feature that will allow advanced routing of registered homes between accounts (expected release 2014). The module will also contain a full CRM.

Please note: You are welcome to use the current features for native bookings, however the Rental Exchange is in development. Features will be updated or removed at any time and features may contain bugs. We have added a Popup screen when accessing Rental Exchange features.

New Reports

Supersites, Reports

You can now double-click a booking to view the Total Booking Summary for that booking. This applies to 'Bookings made by your agents' and 'Bookings you have made for your suppliers'

Variation on the existing report showing Depart Date, Guest Name, Property, Cleaner and Next Arrival Date. You can report on all cleaners or a specified cleaner only

Check (Cheque) or Credit card for online booker

The online booking module can now display a choice for the guest to pay by check (cheque) or pay by credit card.
This feature can be set from screen:
Website and Marketing > General Settings > General > Online Booker
If the pay by check feature is enabled, then a URL can be entered to direct the guest to the instructions webpage for check payments.
An additional optional charge (percentage) can be added to the base rental if the guest pays by card.
To view the initial method of payment from the guest:
Total Booking Summary > General

Arrival Information Screen

Arrival information for a booking can be displayed and copied from Screen:
Total Booking Summary > General

Various New Updates and Features

Balance Due Date is now editable on a per-booking basis. By default a new booking balance due date will be calculated based on the 'Number of weeks balance due' option in Quote Settings. You can override this in the new 'Balance Due' panel in:

Can now specify an item cost as a percentage of the base rental rate (this also applies to the new discounts option)
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Saved Quotes

You can now create a link from a quote to the online payment page, after optionally editing the financials and extras. When a guest clicks the link and submits payment details against the quote, the system checks there is still availability and converts the quote to a live booking.
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View Saved Quotes

Supersite Agents can now view outbound quotes (i.e. quotes generated on their site, where the property is managed by another supplier). These quotes can be viewed, email sent to guest, and converted to a booking by the supersite agent.
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Booking Schedule

Can now right-click a booking to see popup menu. For native and agent bookings choose to open in Bookings Manager or Total Booking Summary. If an Outbound booking, can view Total Booking summary only.
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Added various new icons on tabs and buttons
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Total Booking Summary

Now available to Supersite Agents to view Outbound Bookings. Read-only other than can add guest payments, and can add and edit extras supplied by the property managers. When editing extras, can adjust the quantity but not the item price
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Total Booking Summary

This has a new tab 'Arrival Details' which shows property address, access codes, Management Company details and other information. This is visible to the MC and agents (provided the agent has permission)
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In the list of agents you can now specify that a particular agent can view arrival details for any booking even if you have not specifically flagged the booking Bookings List for the agent to view the arrival details
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Work Orders

The 'Allocated To' drop-down now allows you to filter by name, whether a staff member or a vendor. This makes it easier to quickly find a specific contact in a long list

When you initially go to the owner account screen, the month now defaults to the current month if you are an MC (rather than previous month).
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The initial payment method chosen by the guest

The initial payment method chosen by the guest on the online Booker is now stored against each booking. You can view and edit this on the booking in the

Total Booking Summary > General (tab)

This setting is reflected in the 'Due / Overdue Payments' report.
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Custom Web Pages: SEO subscribers can now reference custom pages using SEO friendly names in the following format: www.floriood.com/content/pagename.aspx.

Websites: Property details can now be viewed in the format www.domain.com/ref12345.aspx

June 4, 2013 - version 2013 (build 018)

You can now specify a bedroom count as zero (in the case of a studio etc). This is not yet live on the websites

Upgraded to .NET Framework version 4 (note: new download file 57 Mb)

Supersites -> Configure propreties for your agents. Now sorts the Rate set alphabetically and added search filter to top of column

May 24, 2013 - version 2013 (build 016)

When running a quote within Property Manager, you can now quote even if the requested dates are less than the stated minimum nights stay for that property. A red note will be added to the top of the quote in this case, to make you aware.

Renamed CRS button to Reservation Exchange

Fixed bug when clicking in the Arrival or Departure Date field, error message appeared

May 20, 2013 - version 2013 (build 015)

Lock Box: If you choose to allow guest to enter a lock box code, the guest may leave this blank. If they leave blank then the lock box code will be generated from the last digits of the phone number. If there are not enough digits in the phone number then the lock box code will be generated randomly

Pool heat amount in quote now shows to 2 decimal places

Search grid HTML now has 2 new tokens to show average nightly rate (ex tax) and average nightly rate (inc tax). The tokens are [avenightlyrateex] and [avenightylrateinc]

Date Bands: Can now specify a season name against each date band (e.g. Low, Mid, High, Peak). These will ultimatey show against the rate list on the website.

Beta: You can now export reservations to iCal format (Booking Scheduler, View Options)

Moved CRS icon to the Management Company menu and renamed to 'Reservation Services'

Online Booker: Can now specify custom text to appear on the 'Requirements' page

Online Booker: Can specify the text to appear for 'Pay by check' and 'Pay by Card' if enabled

Booking Manager: You can now delete a cancelled booking (right-click on cancelled booking, then click 'Delete')

April 17, 2013 - version 2013 (build 009)

Long Term Rentals, Grid row HTML - can now specify HTML to display in the search results grid, if the property is a long term rental

Bookings List: Added new columns "Nights" for number of booked nights and "Address1" for property address line 1

New URL parameter for search.aspx?term=x where x is 0 = all properties, 1 = long term only, 2 = short term only

April 8, 2013 - version 2013 (build 006)

Bookings List: Can now choose whether the date filter is based on rental dates or on the date the reservation was added

Bookings List: Can now choose to show financial information (MC Commission and booking figures) against the bookings. Totals are displayed in the footer so you can see turnover or commission based on date ranges and other filters

Bookings List: Added an "Export to Excel" option

Cleaning Schedule: Can now click "Go to booking" to view the booking the clean is scheduled against

Bookings List: Can now opt to view cancelled bookings

Default MC Commission can now be set to 2 decimal places

Renamed 'Recurring Payments' to 'Recurring Charges'

Standard Reports: Added Property Name and Address to Booking Report 2

Cleans -> Owner account. You can now see the booking category of the booking the clean belongs to, as well as the number of nights of rental.

Expected Arrivals Report: Added a new flag to show if previous booking had pool heating

Departures Report: End of stay clean, cleaning company now displayed

Free Properties Report: Now shows how long each property has been empty for

Wi-Fi network name and code can now be stored in 'MC Specific Property Details'. The guest

confirmation template can now hold 2 new variables [wifiname] and [wificode]

Departures Report: Can now report back from 18 months

Invoicing, Check Printing: Can now print to alternate check format as well as QuickBooks checks

Agent bookings Property Information Email: Supersite agents are now automatically emailed 28 days and 7 days prior to arrival of a booking they have placed. This email contains property details including address, lock box code and other arrival info. MC can switch this feature off against specific agents in the Supersite Agents list.

Secure Track -> Fixed bug where a booking added by an MC would sometimes show as being added by an owner

Secure Track -> Now tracks changes to Booking Category

Online Booker -> Guest can now make a comment in the booking summary screen, which will be stored as a comment against the booking.

Website Advanced Settings -> If you use the top-left date picker you can now specify locations to appear in the location chooser. If you do not use the top-left date picker you can create a custom list of locations to appear in the top search bar

Can now search on properties that sleep at least the specified number of guests

Quotes Manager -> Quote Settings -> Down Payment / Balance:

You can now specify that a % down payment is recalculated after a user selects optional extras. This means the online booker will adjust the down payment due after a guest has selected their optional extras.

Ciirus updates can be downloaded directly from the dashboard

May 21, 2012 - version 2012 (build 023)

Split the income for cleaning charges and additional extras

It is now possible to split the income for cleans and additional extras between management company and the owner. In addition the split can be different percentage depending if the booking originated as an owner or management company booking.

For example if the booking is a management company booking the income for Gas BBQ rental could be 70% to the management company and the remainder to the owner. For an owner booking the owner could be allocated a higher percentage.

Below are the screens locations that affect the split income. Current reservations will not be affected. You can update a current booking directly from:

Bookings Manager > Total Booking Summary > MC Owner amounts > Edit

Bookings Manager > Total Booking Summary > Edit Extra

To set the default (global) amount for all Cleans (affects all properties):

Please note: the online edition does not have the split feature. Please ensure you are using the Windows edition when sending the owner amount to the owner account. We will be updating the online edition in due course.

Occupancy Reports (Beta)

We have added Occupancy Reports to Ciirus. Data can be compared by Year, Month, percentage and various other criteria. We have included some default reports. The reports can also display as Graphs. You can access Occupancy Reports from:

Management Company > Reporting > Occupancy Reports

First select the date range and Load Data before any reports can be displayed.

Select a default report from the drop down list

To display a Graph, Highlight a range of numbers (Usually exclude the Grand Total) then press the Graph Button.

You can also create custom reports by pressing the 'Select Fields' Button, then drag and drop the field, either at the top or on the left column

Note: This feature is still in Beta. We welcome your comments and suggestion to further develop the Occupancy Reports feature.

Below is list of available occupancy reports (you can also create custom reports):

Nights and occupancy, Property by Year

Nights booked by MC, Month by Year

Nights by owner, Month by Year

Nights booked. Bedrooms by Month, Year

Nights booked. Category by Month, Year

Nights booked. Community/Resort by Month, Year

Nights booked. MC, Owner by Month, Yea

Percent Occupancy, Property by Month, Year

Property Occupancy, by Month, Year

Rental Income (pre-tax). MC, Owner by Month, Year

Rental Income (pre-tax). Property by Month, Year

Pool Heat Report Updated

Pool heat report you can now set the start date for the report:

Management Company > Reporting > Standard Reports

Bill Payments Updated

Invoices: Now has a column available for 'In Owner Account' so you can see at a glance if a particular invoice has already been sent to the owner account:

Fixed bug whereby cleans were being assigned to a property automatically when a booking is added, even when the property had been flagged as not requiring a scheduled clean

Improvements to the RealEx CC gateway

January 24, 2012 - version 2012 (build 005)

Work Orders: Check box to flag a work order as 'No Charge'. This provides a useful cross check in the event you did not intend to leave a zero owner charge against a work order.

Uploaded Image Viewer in preparation for launch of iPhone app which has the ability to upload images from the camera.

January 10, 2012 - version 2012 (build 002)

Guest Templates: [numguests] token now counts based on the guest list entered, or if no list then uses the 'Adults / Children' fields in the Party Size section

Manage Owners: You can now override the default setting per owner to allow owners to see the owner amount on Management Company bookings

January 02, 2012 - version 2012 (build 001)

Quotes Manager Bug Fix

December 31, 2011 - version 2011 (build 109)

Fixed bug where sometimes Application would start minimized and then unable to restore screen

Added Standard Report: Booking Details (for export only)

Fixed bug adding / deleting blog categories

December 14, 2011 - version 2011 (build 104)

Websites: Can now add a user name and password to prevent public access. When you try to access any page, you will be prompted to log on first. The user name and password is set by you and is different to your Ciirus user name and password.

SuperSites: MC's can now create new SuperSite agent accounts within Property Manager.

Payment Gateways supported:

PayPal

RealEx payment gateway (UK and most of Europe)

BeanStream gateway (Canada)

Split screen view for Bookings List and Cleaning Schedule
(The splits the grid so you can scroll the top and bottom separately)

Usage: right-click on the grid header and choose "split"

December 7, 2011 - version 2011 (build 099)

The newsletters/templates page now shows only the list of available templates

Newsletters and Templates added Edit button

Module loading message

.NET installer

December 4, 2011 - version 2011 (build 097)

Added various "Please Wait" popup windows on lengthy operations

Booking List and Cleaning Schedule can now split the grid vertically

Guest Confirmation Templates: Can now include [ccpaymentlink] token to give link to the secure payment page

Online Booker: Can now define text displayed on final page (where guest is prompted to make payment)

Online Booker: Can now choose a guest confirmation email template to send to a guest on completion of their online booking

November 24, 2011 - version 2011 (build 094)

Various minor bug fixes

Standard Reports: Added new 'Booking Report 2'

Standard Reports: New tab 'Export other' which currently has an option to export guest contact details to Microsoft Excel

Included download for .NET Framework 3.5 if not already installed

Owner Account Balances Report: Now shows the minimum account balance and the amount due by the owner or to the owner. If the amount due by owner is greater than the minimum account balance then the amount due is displayed in red. If the amount due by owner is less than or equal the minimum account balance then the amount due is displayed in green. If no money is due from the owner then the amount is displayed in black.

Standard Reports: New 'Occupied Properties' report to show properties occupied on a specific date

November 09, 2011 - version 2011 (build 087)

Credit Card Payments: If you are configured for live payments, you can now flag payments as approved without taking an actual payment. This is useful if you had to process the payment outside of Ciirus on your virtual terminal

Total Booking Summary: Can now set total to zero. Doing this makes rental, pool, clean and booking fee = zero. Extras are at their stated price

Added new system wide category 'Owner Staying'

Rate Sets: Can now specify a set as tax inclusive, which will be taken in to account when quoting

Bookings Manager: Booking ID now appears on the Booking Detail report

Quotes Manager: If you are configured for Supersite agents, you can now run a quote using agent rates

Bookings Manager: If you are configured for Supersite agents, you can now add a booking assigned to an agent, which defaults to their allocated rates

Quotes Manager: You can quote with any rate set you have defined in your system (i.e. override the default rate set assigned to the property)

October 28, 2011 - version 2011 (build 085)

Website: Get Quote now shows date in shorter format

Standard Reports: Added 'export' button to export to Excel on reports where they were previously merging rows

Website Settings: Can now set Featured Properties

Website Settings: On Details page can now incldue the [key] token to show the key (legend) for that property

Owner Edition: Owners now have an 'Advanced Settings' menu which is a subset of the MC menu. This has 'Booking Schedule', 'Contacts' and 'Templates'

Bookings Manager: Owners can now send Guest Confirmation emails from a custom template

MC Commissions: You can now specify MC Commission globally, per property or specific to a booking

Bookings Manager: Rates used to be stored as a single total including tax, extras etc. Pricing is now broken down in to component parts (rental, booking fee, cleaning fee, pool heat, extras) and individual items can be specified as taxable or not for each of up to 3 tax types. New 'Total Booking Summary' button on various screens will bring up these pricing details

Bookings Manager: Guest Payments have now been moved in to the new screen as above

Bookings Manager: Pool Heat has now been moved in to the new screen as above

Bookings Manager: MC/Owner Amount and Agent amount now moved to the new screen as above

Web Design: Added advanced setting to switch off all headers

Web Design: Ciirus can now customize the top menu via HTML

Newsletters / Templates: Can now customize your own Quote Template

Default Cleaner - can now set on a per-property basis (and moved the global default out of contacts in to MC General Settings)

Bill Payments and Assets: Can now clear the invoice batch (before processing) if you decide to start over

MC Specific property details. Can now see and edit the date the property was added

Extras: Can now specify items to be hidden from online booking shopping Cart. This is so MCs can enter items such as Excess Trash removal, Wire transfer fees etc that are added by MC only, at a later date

Bookings Manager: Can now create user-defined templates for Owner and Guest confirmations. When you send a confirmation you can choose the template you would like to use.

Bookings Manager: Important actions are now automatically recorded. You can add your own notes to the history

Bookings Manager: You can configure how to calculate the Owner amount. By default the owner amount includes taxes etc, but you can now set to only send the net owner amount (after tax etc) to the owner

Bookings Manager: Now defaults to only show more recent and future bookings. You can specify the date if you wish to view older bookings. There is now a refresh button in the lower tool bar.

Quick Quote: Fixed bug related to users in a time zone ahead of EST. On occasion the time difference would cause the requested dates to go back by 1 day.

Description Sets: Can now set a 'Search Grid Overview' which is a small summary description of the property that can be added to a custom designed search grid (configurable by Ciirus)

Saved Quotes: Re-designed the saved quotes screen, and allow editing of quote details (extras, pricing etc) and MC commission rates before turning in to a booking. New pop-up menu when you right-click a quote

Saved Quotes: Can now specify how long a quote is valid for

Bookings Manager: New pop-up menu when you right-click with commonly used functions.

Bookings List: Can now view rate and extras details against bookings

Bookings List: New pop-up menu when you right-click with commonly used functions

Website Settings: Can now specify where the key appears on the Search Grid (top, bottom, both, none)

When an owner logs on, goes straight to the Bookings Manager screen

The main Application window title (where the user and version is displayed) has been rearranged to show the username at the start. This makes it easy to identify the correct Window in the Task Bar when switching between different users

Get Quote: Re-designed screen layout to make it easier to read particularly on smaller monitors

Get Quote: Can now specify that properties are not 'Quotable' within Ciirus

Get Quote: Can now choose to display a quote for 'All Properties' or just the currently selected property. Can also choose whether to quote on just specific size of property (by bedrooms), or all sizes

Bookings Manager: When sending a guest confirmation, can now include Lock Box Code, Alarm Code and Gate Code on the email. This is configured in the new template for the confirmations (within Newsletters and Templates)

Extras: Can now specify for each item whether it is available for your owners to add to their own bookings

Added new 'Private Comments' in the Bookings Manager 'More Info' tab. This allows MC or Owner to add comments to a booking that are only visible on that screen, and will not be displayed on any of the reports

Schedule / Reminders: Can now view the print mode list prior to printing, in order to re-size columns and group as you like

Bookings Manager: Can now specify Arrival and Departure Information (flight detials, where guest needs directing from etc). This can be displayed on the owner and guest confirmations

Bookings Manager: Guest name and dates are now editable on the General Details panel (rather than the Grid)

Cleaning Schedule: Now has next guest Lock Box Code. You can optionally add this to your custom cleaning report, if you have your cleaners set the code for the next guest

Bill Payments and Assets: Fix default 'Statement Date' so it now defaults to current date rather than a past date.

Cleaning Schedule: Can now include 'Clean Cost' for each clean (i.e. the amount your cleaning company charges you for the clean)

Extras: Can now add negative amounts when defining extras, which can be used for standard ad-hoc discounts (such as -$5 per day, $100 total for the booking etc)

Pool Heat On/Off report

August 1, 2011 - version 2011 (build 057)

Major Upgrade Starting August 2, 2011

QuickBooks Compatibility Improved

Dynamic Pricing (stage one)

Additional Reservations Report

Owner Account Update

Booking g fee

Packlate Integration Complete and a Success

Currency conversion button for online edition

SecureTrack Update

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1) Major Upgrade Starting August 2, 2011

Update to the way we store rates against reservations

Currently rates are stored against a reservation as a grand total only.

When a quote is made, the component parts are itemized, however only the total amount is stored against the reservation.

This new update will store the base rental rate, cleaning/housekeeping charge, pool heat (if applicable), booking fees and the charges for any other optional extras.

Each of the above will be itemized and can be set as taxable or not. Individual costs of the booked extras will be editable then the new overall total recalculated based on tax settings.

This will improve the accuracy of the tax calculations and allow us to show the breakdown of the booking charges on the guest confirmations etc.

The above affects so many integral parts of the software hence an overall estimated time of 6 weeks to completion.

Once this has been done we can work on other much requested improvements such as storing quotes that can then be modified and turned in to bookings once a guest confirms, and many other new features.

We will recommence routine requests and enhancements after the above work is complete.

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2) QuickBooks Compatibility Improved:

QuickBooks Exports from the following screen:

Management Company > Reporting > QuickBooks Exports

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3) Dynamic Pricing (stage one):

Over the next few months we are adding Dynamic pricing features to Ciirus. This will enable discounts based on predefined rules. The first feature is available now. This feature can discount a percentage based on number of days booked. The feature is available from the following Screen:

Over the past six months we have been working closely with www.PackLate.com to provide you with a unique real-time reservation service that enables management companies to specify a Floor Rate (net rate) from the Ciirus rates section for each property. The rates, availability, images for your selected properties are made available to over 4000 travel agents worldwide. Not only does this service allow you to specify the rate, it also pays you in advance.

The travel agents are able to book your properties in real-time. When a reservation is made, Ciirus updates availability, schedules the clean and all other features, as if the booking had been entered manually or booked from your web site.

The next stage is to make the service available to companies based outside the USA. We have been in communication with Steve Caron from Packlate, he has advised us that we may have the global service active by the end of the year.

The USA service is now all up and running with reservations made on a daily basis. Let us know if you would like to add some of your properties to this unique service.

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8) Currency conversion button for online edition:

A currency conversion button is now available for the online edition. The button is located at top right of the online edition window

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9) SecureTrack Update:

An MC with SecureTrack can now prevent staff from seeing the owner/MC amount against a booking, so they just see the total guest payment.

July 19, 2011 - version 2011 (build 051)

Multi-Currency

Two multi-currency features added to Ciirus

1) by 7/22/2011 Ciirus hosted websites will display a currency selector menu located on the top right of the web sites. Your website visitors can view prices in local currencies. The currencies are updated every 12 hours. This is only an indicator of the cost. Actual payment is still made in the currency that the property have been set.

To enable this feature the default currency must be set and 'Show currency drop-down on website' turned on from:

2) A quick currency converter is now available in Ciirus (Windows edition). The currency converter icon is displayed at the very top left of the Ciirus control panel. The currencies are updated every 12 hours.

Other new features for version 2011 (build 051):

Owner account report - suppressed blank page at end of print-out which sometimes appeared

Owner accounts - option to print all statements for selected month/year with the click of a button

Added extra option when printing the Works Order summary (to group by property)

February 03, 2011 - version 2011 (build 009)

Quote will only show available properties

Assign owner account category to a works order

Can now use 2 decimal places when entering a new booking in bookings manager (used to only allow a whole figure)

January 21, 2011 - version 2011 (build 008)

Updated web site editor

Can specify and display Daily rates

Can specify minimum days rental for any period

Added floor rate feature for up coming agent and retail bookings

Printed PDF documentation available (see top right of this web page)

January 18, 2011 - version 2011 (build 007)

New Owner Account Global Summary reports
Various bug fixes

2011.006
Various Bug fixes

2011.005
Fixes problems on Turkish PCs
Can now set Property Type (Villa, Town House, Condo etc)

January 10, 2011 - version 2011 (build 003)

Overdrawn Accounts

The Overdrawn Owner Accounts dashboard panel, you can group the owners, so if for example an owner has 2 properties and one is overdrawn and one is in credit, then it shows the sum for the owner. This can be selected using the tick box at the bottom-right of the dashboard.

January 06, 2011 - version 2011 (build 002)

Bookings Manager

defaults the booking manager to the next booking, and collapses previous years to keep the list looking shorter

January 04, 2011 - version 2011 (build 001)

30 skins added

30 new skins have been added to the Windows edition. You can change the look and feel of the Windows edition from the skins menu located at the bottom left of your screen.

Property map

The property map will display the location of your properties in any of the following modes map, satellite, and terrain. The property map feature is located in the user account menu. Clicking on the property in the map will display the property image of property details in a pop-up window.

Note: In order for a property to be displayed go to:

Property Details > Property Name / Location' then ensure the correct postal address is entered and press the 'Auto' button.

Bookings manager update

When entering the bookings manager screen, the selected property will always display the current booking.

Each new version update will now contain the year and build number, for example this release is: 2011 (build 001)

December 14, 2010 - version 2.641

Custom Logo Branding

You can now display you logo to replace the Ciirus logo in the top right of your screens for Windows Edition and Web Edition (to be released this week). To enable this feature, you must send us your logo for reformatting and uploading.

CTRL F

Ctrl F for searching on Grids

Quotes Manager

Faster Quotes Manager

fixes the problem where the date bands were not updating when you choose a different rate set.

SecureTrack

Price reduced to $9.99 per month

November 27, 2010 - version 2.631

SecureTrack (Optional)

What is SecureTrack

SecureTrack is an optional service for Ciirus Property Manager that allows restricted multiple staff and vendor access to your Ciirus Property Manager account. Updates and changes made by the administrator, a member of staff, a vendors and homeowners are tracked, recorded and stored for up to two years. The history can be recalled, filtered and viewed by the administrator (the account owner).

SecureTrack comprises of two modules:

1) Access Control:

The Account Access Control feature allows the system administrator to restrict access to selected screens on a per user basis. For example the administrator could restrict access for the reservation staff to the bookings schedule, bookings list and bookings manager screens only. All other screens would be disabled for this user.
Example situations where you might use Access control include:

User Change Tracking allows the system administrators to track changes made to records by each member of staff and the home owner. The records are maintained for up to 2 years.

Tracked changes include the following:

Inserts: New records added

Updates: Records that have been updated

Deletes: Records that have been deleted

For each updated record the system will display:

The status of the record (either Insert, Update or Delete)

The user that updated the record

The time and date the record was updated

The data that was updated

Track system login access

Who accessed the system

The location (IP address) used

The time and date

The edition and version of the application that was used to access the account

New Web Page HTML editor

We have installed an updated web site HTML editor. The new editor has an embedded HTML view. The performance of the new editor has improved. Better handling of fonts.

Improved Performance Loading

The menus now load faster. The way the modules are loaded has been improved. Just to reminder, you can view when a module loads from the blue bar at the bottom of the screen.

Booking Category update

Can now set booking category for online bookings

Bookings list 'Date Added'

Can now add 'Date Added' column to the Bookings List

Second currency being removed in the owner edition

The homeowner edition will no longer have the second currency option. This decreases the performance when running online quotes and is rarely used. We are phasing this out over the next 4 weeks.

November 06, 2010 - version 2.625

Shopping Cart Feature is Live

Your Ciirus online booking system has an integrated shopping cart. Your guests can purchase additional items that you make available, directly from your web site. The items can be purchased at the time of booking the property.

Quotes Manager > Cart Settings

Home Owner Login Screen Locks

You can now optionally disable any of the following screen from your home owner login screens:
Web site Manager, Property details, Bookings Manager, Quotes Manager

Management Company > Manage Owners

Print feature added for Booking Details Report

Bookings Manager > Print

Unlimited Domain Names

You can point unlimited domain names to your web site:

Web site and marketing > Domain Name

Online Edition Updated

The Online Edition has a number of updates including:

* Add and Save booking at the top of the screen
* Only dates and name now appear for management company bookings

* Multiple staff logins. A separate login for each staff member
* Screen locking: disable selected screens from staff members
* Audit Reporting: The system will log user, time and certain changes made by staff members

Charge added to work order summary list report

The charge for a work order can now be viewed from the work order summary list report

Property Plus Data imports improved

Additional import routines have now been added for clients transferring to Ciirus software from Property Plus

October 20, 2010 - version 2.623

Batch check printing: Separate sheet with check details

Dashboard: Added overdrawn Owner Accounts

Web / Property Images: Can now upload PNG as well as JPG

Schedule A report: no longer cuts off owner name

Cleaning Report: Comments added to default cleaning reports

October 03, 2010 - version 2.621

New Property Features & Icons

Update web grid for property search which also shows the new property features as defined above.

Sales Tax Report

September 25, 2010 - version 2.617

Saved Quote Update
- Ability to create a new booking from a saved quote

September 22, 2010 - version 2.616

New standard reports

Owner month end report

Current account balance Report

Batch Invoice Update

Current day owner balance displayed against property on add invoice batch

Bookings Manager Update

Improved 'Create Booking' input form

When adding a new booking, new icon to auto-calculate rate based on dates

New 'Quick Property Setup' option to quickly make changes to multiple properties

Can now specify the sort order that properties appear on your web site

Can now add 'black out' dates to a property (e.g. when work being carried out so cannot take a booking)

Works Orders:
- you can now record vehicle mileage and time taken against a works order
- You can allocate works orders to your staff members or other contacts
- You can specify whether a works order should be hidden from the owner
- You can print a works order sheet

Can re-order the menu items on the left hand menu using drag-and-drop, so you can move commonly used items to the top

June 28, 2010 - version 2.55

Property Plus Data can now be imported

Booking Categories:
-Can now create an unlimited number of booking categories, and assign bookings to these categories
- You can assign a background and text color to the categories you create. This will show on the various booking screens and cleaning schedules
- Each category can be defined as an owner booking or mc booking
- Each category can optionally be set as tax exempt
- You can choose a default category to assign to new bookings to depending on whether the booking is an MC Booking, Owner

Booking or Tour Operator Booking Can now include €˜Checkout time€™ for late checkouts

The storing of logon password on the initial logon screen is now optional to increase security

Management Companies can now choose whether to allow their owners to modify the property descriptions and photos that are displayed online

Improved formatting of tax reports (and takes in to account if a booking is tax exempt)

The Bill Payments screen now allows grouping by Check# and can show invoices that were paid on each check. This makes it easier to reconcile with bank statement

May 27, 2010 - version 2.54

Unlimited Custom Web Pages

Updated web menus

Lock box, alarm, gate codes

April 27, 2010 - version 2.53

The credit card processing features have been updated

Live payments can now be taken (currently for FirstData merchant users only - others on request)

Enter a guest payment to a booking option and enter a payment to the owner account option

The new credit card link in the Bookings Manager allows you to select a payment type and define the amount to be charged. If left blank the guest can enter the amount.

You can now launch multiple copies of property manager. This can be use full if you operate multiple management companies

The Dashboard item highlight colours have been updated

The selected web site menu buttons can now be not visible. The pages still exist if you directly link to them but the selected buttons will not appear in the menu. You can rename your web site buttons. Useful for non English web sites. see Web Site & Marketing > General Settings

March 23, 2010 - version 2.52

Booking Agent Logon

Owners can no longer modify a Management Company booking

Owners can no longer see the rate against Management Company bookings

Can now specify a minimum length of stay for online bookings

Dashboard print option

Balance due now shown against bookings on the payments tab

Consolidated the Management Company 'Online Bookings' settings in to the general Quote Settings

Logon screen now has option to logon as demo account (Floriwood)

Can now flag a property as not requiring a clean (e.g. for properties that an Management Company obtains bookings for but does not manage)

On user websites, top menu now in HTML rather than flash to allow easier future customization and increase performance

'Property Name' setting has been moved from 'MC Specific Details' menu to the 'Property Details' menu